Watch List notes:

SICILY, Syracuse. Dionysios I. 405-367 BC. AR Dekadrachm (36.5mm, 42.35 g, 2h). Unsigned dies in the style of Kimon. Struck circa 405-400 BC. Charioteer, holding kentron in extended right hand and reins in left, driving fast quadriga left; above, Nike flying right, crowning charioteer with laurel wreath held in her extended hands; below heavy exergual line, a shield, greaves, cuirass, and Attic helmet, all connected by a horizontal spear; [AΘΛA below] / Head of Arethousa left, wearing single-pendant earring and necklace, hair restrained in an ampyx and open-weave sakkos; ΣΥΡΑΚΟΣΙ behind hair, four swimming dolphins around. Jongkees 14 (dies C/ν); Scavino 14 (D3/R13); HGC 2, 1298; SNG ANS 360 (same obv. die); Dewing 872 (same obv. die); Jameson 1921 (same obv. die); de Luynes 1241 (same obv. die); Nanteuil 356 (same dies); Rizzo pl. L, 6 (same obv. die). Cleaning marks under light tone, area of scratches and typical die rust on obverse. Good VF. Extremely rare final dies of Kimon, only e examples known (four in Jongkees, two additional in Scavino, and two more in CoinArchives [including this coin]).


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Berk BBS 204 (18 July 2018), lot 52 (at $70,000, and noting that Ed Waddell had seen this coin in an American collection he was appraising in 1995).